I was born at the end of the year 1990, so yes, i have seen a floppy disk but then, no, i never saw linux until i was 16 running on a SUN machine that everyone was afraid to touch. Arch linux, Never really used it. Debian, Hmm, not fond of it even though i have to admit it is good from what i see and yes, it is a little easy in my opinion on memory.
Red Hat 6.2 , what planet were you on ? Never seen that one. I can't say i really hate any linux, i simply just work my way through any distro to get the job done but, on my box , OpenSUSE will stand unless some miracle happens which is highly unlikely . Even Battled with FreeBSD ? If so, tell me about it. I destroyed it after getting the GUI system to work ,i just followed a guide to write a script to boot up the drives i needed , and the GUI and KDE login, After that worked, i for some reason just removed it. On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Benjamin Tayehanpour < [email protected]> wrote: > I think my first actual experience with installing and using Linux was > with Red Hat 6.2, but I do recall browsing the SUNET mirror wondering > how actually to retrieve and use Debian. Most things I know about > computers I've taught myself, and you don't know much about floppy > images and ISOs when you're, like, ten years old... Anyway, I > dual-booted back then. I still remember trying to grasp the whole > concept of "everything is a file", staring myself blind looking at > /dev. It's an odd feeling, remembering ignorance! :) > > I wished for, and received, a subscription to a good GNU/Linux > magazine, so I always had new distributions to test. Some of them > still exist today; some don't. I used Slackware for a while, but found > the lack of dependency handling to be too troublesome for, er, > preadolescence. Still, GNU/Linux was always my secondary system right > up to the day I finally got the then-quite-frail Debian installer to > work on my system. Debian with KDE3 stole me away from Windows as > primary system, and eventually altogether. > > In recent years I've developed a fondness for minimalism, so I've done > away with pre-established desktop environments and usually > micro-manage the installation. I would probably settle for Arch Linux > if they didn't have the annoying habit of messing up their package > upgrade management quite so frequently. > > On 21 August 2013 16:41, William Kibira <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hey, Benjamin i hope you got Modem Manager to work > > > > > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 5:41 PM, William Kibira <[email protected] > > > > wrote: > >> > >> Like i said, easier to use and also it assumes your smart also, unless > >> what your trying to operate is well somewhere between weird and well > >> really fake [ Strange camera brands :)] , and of course , damaged flash > >> drives. And stuff the Chinese might have made in category F (FAKE). > >> > >> I can't complain man, it is a great place to do stuff as a developer > since > >> it is pretty much the only place i have ever written code. Be it C/C++, > >> python or Java, it has always been in Linux. > >> > >> Perhaps it should now be a battle of who thinks their selection of > Linux > >> flavors is the best. I have used only a few, > >> ->Mandrake 9.2 > >> ->RedHat 9.0 > >> // When i was still a really a kid > >> ->Kubuntu 8.4 <- Unique for their fire works screen saver that could > send > >> you into shock with weird light light effects and sound > >> | > >> | > >> | > >> | > >> *buntu Till like 9.* and then gave up and ran away , > >> *Fedora 9 [Didn't even last two days] i ran off and never looked back. > >> ->OpenSUSE 11.1 , And from then on i have never looked back this has > been > >> the most loved > >> ->Mint, brought meaning of ease of use and looks in linux to me, but i > >> dumped it when someone gave me a copy of OpenSUSE 12.1 > >> | > >> | > >> | No laptop between these periods [Stolen] > >> > >> SLES 11 [NOVELL] Hmm, i admired the fact that it came with tools, tools > i > >> really didn't want or need. And it had no access to my favorite > Repositories > >> to get stuff like SDL and some experimental libraries for C/C++ > >> This OS was too serious for me [I was still too young to be serious] > >> > >> | Kicked it off, running OpenSUSE 12.2 > >> | Ran OpenSUSE 12.3 for two months, it was too heavy and always crashed, > >> it actually needed more updates than i could keep up with and locked all > >> flash drives from being written to unless you were root, > >> | Reverted back to OpenSUSE 12.2 > >> > >> I doubt i am going to change so long as i have what i need to write > >> multimedia based software in C/C++, i really don't care. > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Benjamin Tayehanpour > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > >>> On 21 August 2013 09:44, Reinier Battenberg > >>> <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> > Man, we have come a long way. Awesome! > >>> > >>> Seconded. I find it ironic that most problems with buggy drivers and > >>> the like I face today has to do with Windows. While it would be an > >>> overstatement to say that everything Just Works in Linux, most things > >>> do, and more importantly, troubleshooting is much easier when the > >>> operating system doesn't assume that you are an idiot. > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug > >>> > >>> Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: > >>> [email protected] > >>> Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >>> Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug > >>> To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug > >>> > >>> The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: > >>> http://www.infocom.co.ug/ > >>> > >>> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including > >>> attachments if any). 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